If you sell to crypto teams, the Apollo.io alternatives worth your money are the ones that hand you a named person, the company on that record and the round history behind it, on a page you can open right now. NAUT read the same 50 crypto founder and CEO rows on 4 tools on 27 October 2026: all 50 rows have a person page and a company page on NAUT, 45 of the 50 carry an X handle, and no page the other 3 tools published let an unauthenticated reader check a single one of those 50 people.
NAUT published this test and wrote this page, so read it as the house view with the working shown. The 6 criteria were fixed on 27 October 2026 before any page was opened. Every rival fact below is quoted as that tool's own dated page displays it, and the page it came from is linked in Sources. Anything behind a login, an account or a paid plan is marked not tested, and a tool is scored only on a page that was actually read. Retest date: 30 November 2026.
The sample is the 50 rows NAUT holds against 22 companies, 21 of them crypto and Web3 teams plus ZeroStack, a Nasdaq-listed AI asset manager that holds crypto assets, where the title is a founder, co-founder or CEO one: 44 of the 50 titles read founder or co-founder, and the other 6 read CEO. Those 50 rows are 49 distinct people, because Canton Network holds 2 rows for 
Shaul Kfir and this piece names him once. Counts below are recomputed from those rows on 27 October 2026, with each company counted once, never taken from a dashboard.
How was this Apollo.io alternatives test scored?
6 criteria, each one a step a BD lead takes before sending a first message: find the person, see the company on that record, get a contact handle, see whether the company has raised, see who backed it, and check what the tool charges.
| Criterion | NAUT | Other 3 tools |
|---|---|---|
| Founder page | 50 of 50 rows, no login | not tested |
| Company page | 50 of 50 rows, the company on that row | not tested |
| X handle | 45 of 50 rows, on the person's page | not tested |
| 1+ funding round | 22 of 22 companies | not tested |
| Named backers | 20 of 22 companies, each backer with its own page | not tested |
| Price or coverage | 50 pages read, none needed a login | Apollo.io only, quoted below |
Apollo.io is the only rival whose own page gave a figure to quote. Its pricing page on 27 October 2026 says "Access 240M contacts & 30M companies", and its Custom plan is for teams that need custom volumes, with a note to talk to Apollo.io sales. The per-person records behind that figure need an account, so no Apollo.io row in this sample was checked and every founder-level cell stays not tested. Its published plan prices are also marked not tested: the amounts are drawn by script and did not appear in the page text that was read on 27 October 2026.
The other 2 rivals could not be scored on a person at all. DropsTab publishes token and fundraising pages that a reader can fetch without a login, which is why it stands in this test in place of a blocked rival, but no founder or CEO profile page turned up on the DropsTab pages read on 27 October 2026, so none of the 50 people here could be looked up on it. PitchBook's plans and pricing page returned nothing readable to a fetch without a login on 27 October 2026. 4 more tools of this kind were tried the same day and are named once, as not tested, because no readable page came back without a login: CryptoRank, Crunchbase, Messari and RootData.
Which Apollo.io alternatives show the person and the company together?
The row-level result is the whole point of this comparison, so here it is on 1 line: for 50 of 50 rows, NAUT holds a page for the person and a page for the company that row sits against, and both open without an account.
5 of the 50 rows carry no X handle: 
Daniel Reis-Faria at ZeroStack, Alexandr Vlasov at ZkSync, Nikolai Durov at TON, Saeed Badreg at Wormhole, and the second of the 2 Canton Network rows for Shaul Kfir. That is the gap to close, and it is the kind of gap a generic sales database hides behind a verified-email badge.
For a BD lead, the pairing is what makes crypto founder contact data usable. A contact record with no company at all sends your message nowhere, and a title that names a different operating entity changes who you write to: 2 of the 50 titles here name Digital Asset, the firm behind Canton Network. Each row below links to the company page, which carries the title text as NAUT holds it.
Which Apollo.io alternatives list the rounds and the backers?
Every 1 of the 22 companies in the sample lists at least 1 funding round on its NAUT page, 120 rounds in total, and 20 of the 22 list at least 1 named backer, 242 backer links in total. Polkadot and ZeroStack are the 2 with no backer named yet.
| Company | Rounds | Backers |
|---|---|---|
 NEAR Protocol |
14 | 22 |
 Aztec Network |
14 | 20 |
 Immutable X |
11 | 17 |
 Jeeves |
8 | 39 |
 Avalanche |
8 | 7 |
 Canton Network |
7 | 8 |
 Solana |
7 | 13 |
 World |
6 | 10 |
 Helium |
6 | 5 |
 Axie Infinity |
6 | 11 |
 World Liberty Financial |
5 | 1 |
 ZkSync |
5 | 16 |
 Polygon |
4 | 11 |
 Polkadot |
4 | 0 |
 Flow |
3 | 5 |
 TON |
3 | 3 |
 Wormhole |
2 | 10 |
 Secret Network |
2 | 9 |
 Sui |
2 | 16 |
 ZeroStack |
1 | 0 |
 ApeCoin |
1 | 2 |
 Yuga Labs |
1 | 17 |
Jeeves is the outlier: 39 backer links across 8 rounds, more named investors than any other company in the sample, which makes it the richest single page here for an investor doing warm-intro mapping. ZeroStack sits at the other end with 1 round and no backer named, and the round itself explains why. On 19 August 2026 the company announced a US$1.0B strategic contribution of MemeCore tokens from Puple AI and Blockcat, so there is a round on the page and no investor syndicate to list.
How many rounds does each page carry?
NEAR Protocol and Aztec Network tie at 14 rounds each, the deepest funding history in the sample. The 10 companies left out of the chart, from Polygon down to Yuga Labs, carry 4 rounds or fewer.
What this means for a BD team
- Start from the company, then the person. All 22 company pages carry the rows from this sample with the title text NAUT holds, so you read the title rather than guess it.
- 45 of the 50 rows carry an X handle, which is the channel most crypto founders answer on. That is your opener, and it is why crypto BD tools get judged on handles.
- Treat this data as perishable. The 5 rows with no handle are the ones to check by hand before you write.
- A tool you cannot open without an account cannot be checked before you buy it. Of the 8 tools named on this page, NAUT is the only one this test could score on a person on 27 October 2026.
- Pick the deepest pagesNEAR Protocol and Aztec Network list 14 rounds each, so the funding story is already written for you.
- Open the company pageEach of the 22 pages carries its rows from this sample, so you write to the person NAUT names.
- Take the handle45 of the 50 rows carry an X handle on NAUT; the other 5 need a manual check.
- Map the backers242 backer links across the 22 companies give you a warm path instead of a cold message.
What this means for a founder raising
- The 22 companies in this sample name 242 backers between them. Those are live investor pages you can read before you pitch, each with its own portfolio.
- Jeeves lists 39 backers across 8 rounds, the widest syndicate here, so its page is the fastest way to see which funds co-invest with each other.
- If your own company page is thin, that is what an investor sees first. A page with the rounds and the team filled in does the first screening call for you.
- Read the backer lists20 of the 22 companies name at least 1 backer, 242 links in total, each one an investor page.
- Find the co-investorsJeeves alone lists 39 backers across 8 rounds, which shows you who invests together.
- Reach a founder first45 of the 50 rows carry an X handle, so a peer intro beats a cold investor email.
- Fix your own page22 of 22 companies here list a round; a page with no round and no team gets skipped.
How to reach the decision makers
These are rows from the sample, each with a NAUT page that carries the title text as the database holds it on 27 October 2026 and, where NAUT has it, the X handle. This is where crypto BD tools either help you find crypto founders or waste your week.
Illia Polosukhin, "Co-founder, CEO NEAR Foundation", at NEAR Protocol, the company with 14 rounds and 22 backers on its page.
Zac Williamson, "Co-founder & CEO", at Aztec Network, the other 14-round page in the sample.
Robbie Ferguson, "Co-founder", at Immutable X, 11 rounds and 17 backers.
Dileep Thazhmon, "Founder and CEO", at Jeeves, the 39-backer page.
Anatoly Yakovenko, "Co-founder, CEO", and 
Raj Gokal, "Co-founder, COO", at Solana.
Sandeep Nailwal, "Founder & CEO", at Polygon.
Alex Blania, "Co-founder, CEO", at World, 6 rounds and 10 backers.
Amir Haleem, "Founder and CEO (Nova Labs)", at Helium.- Shaul Kfir, "Co-Founder", at Canton Network, 7 rounds and 8 backers.
Yuval Rooz, "CEO" (of Digital Asset, the firm behind Canton Network per its own about page), and 
Eric Saraniecki, "Co-Founder, Digital Asset", are both tied to the same company route in NAUT's record; Digital Asset's own about page, read on 27 October 2026, calls Saraniecki "co-founder and head of network strategy at Digital Asset", so that is where to write to him. 
Evan Cheng, "CEO, Mysten Labs / Co-founder", at Sui, where 5 of the 50 rows sit on 1 company page.
Gavin Wood, "Founder", at Polkadot, and 
Roham Gharegozlou, "Co-founder Dapper Labs", at Flow.
Jeffrey Zirlin, "Co-Founder and Growth Lead", at Axie Infinity, 
Alex Zaidelson, "CEO, SCRT Labs", at Secret Network, 
Anatoly Makosov, "Co-founder & Developer, TON Core", at TON, and 
Maofan Yin, "Co-founder Ava Labs", at Avalanche.
Apollo.io alternatives FAQ
What is the best tool for crypto BD on open pages?
On the 6 criteria fixed for this test on 27 October 2026, NAUT is the only tool of the 4 that could be scored on a person at all: 50 of 50 rows had a person page and a page for the company on that row, and 45 of the 50 carried an X handle. Apollo.io, DropsTab and PitchBook were marked not tested at that level, because Apollo.io's per-person records sit behind an account, PitchBook's pages returned nothing readable without one, and DropsTab carries no person-level founder records to score, so this is a result on open pages and not a claim about their paid data.
What does Apollo.io publish about its coverage and price?
Apollo.io's own pricing page on 27 October 2026 says "Access 240M contacts & 30M companies", and its Custom plan is for teams that need custom volumes, with a note to talk to Apollo.io sales. That is a general business database figure rather than a crypto founder count, and NAUT could not check any of the 50 people in this sample against it without an account.
How many crypto founders and companies were in this test?
50 rows where NAUT holds a founder, co-founder or CEO title, which are 49 distinct people, across 22 crypto and Web3 companies, from NEAR Protocol and Solana to Jeeves and ZeroStack, read on 27 October 2026. Those 22 companies list 120 funding rounds and 242 named backers between them on their NAUT pages.
Why are some tools marked not tested?
A tool is scored here only on a page that was read without a login on 27 October 2026. PitchBook, CryptoRank, Crunchbase, Messari and RootData all returned nothing readable to that fetch, Apollo.io keeps its per-person records behind an account, and DropsTab does not track person-level founder data at all, so none of the 7 rival pages could be checked against these 50 people.
Which company page in this sample is the most useful for sourcing?
Jeeves, with 39 backer links across 8 rounds, names more investors than any other page in the sample, and NEAR Protocol and Aztec Network tie for the longest funding history at 14 rounds each. All 3 pages open without an account, which is the point of reading Apollo.io alternatives on open pages.
When will this comparison be retested?
30 November 2026, on the same 6 criteria and the same 50 rows, with any tool that returned nothing on 27 October 2026 retried first. If a blocked page opens by then, its cells get a real score in place of not tested.
Sources
- Apollo.io pricing page, read on 27 October 2026: apollo.io/pricing, for the 240M contacts and 30M companies figure and the contact sales line.
- ZeroStack's US$1.0B MemeCore token contribution, announced 19 August 2026: company release and the same release on Nasdaq.
- Digital Asset, the firm behind Canton Network, on its own about page read 27 October 2026: digitalasset.com/about.
- Pages marked not tested, each fetched without a login on 27 October 2026 and none of which returned a readable pricing or coverage page: pitchbook.com/plans-and-pricing, cryptorank.io/pricing, crunchbase.com/pricing, messari.io/pricing and rootdata.com/Pricing.
- NAUT figures are read from the NAUT database on 27 October 2026 and recomputed from the 50 rows, each company counted once. Every company and person named above links to the page the figure came from.